Megumi Muto

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of mobile phone coverage on the marketing costs of agricultural commodities in Ugandan households in 94 communities, and found increased sales of banana in remote communities but not of maize.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the combined impacts of mobile phone use and personal networks by using panel data from 856 households in 94 communities in rural Uganda, where the number of communities with mobile network coverage increased from 41 to 87 communities over a 2-year period between the first and second surveys, conducted in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of spatial connectivity on household income growth and non-agriculture labor supply in Indonesia by combining household panel data and village census data during the period of 1995-2007.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the combined impact of mobile phone coverage expansion and personal networks by using panel data of 856 households in 94 communities in rural Uganda, where the number of communities covered by mobile-phone coverage increased from 41 to 87 communities over a two-year period between first and second surveys in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of mobile phone coverage on the marketing costs of agricultural commodities in Ugandan households in 94 rural communities, and found that after the expansion of coverage, increased sales of banana in remote communities but not of maize.